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By the time the first story based on former
NSA contractor Edward Snowden's disclosures splashed across the front pages of
the world's newspapers, India had reportedly begun deployment
of its own major surveillance architecture, the Central Management System
(CMS). The system is a $132 million project that allows
central access to all communications content and metadata carried over Indian telecommunications
networks. According to documents
reviewed by The Hindu:

A new English/Arabic online tool is available for citizen
journalists who have no previous journalism experience or training but are
reporting dangerous frontline stories. It uses animation--a novelty for such
guides--and its arrival is timely.

Government surveillance of electronic communications "should
be regarded as a highly intrusive act that potentially interferes with the
rights to freedom of expression and privacy and threatens the foundations of a
democratic society," Frank La Rue, U.N. special rapporteur for freedom of
expression, warned in a
report issued less than two months ago. "States should be completely
transparent about the use and scope of communications surveillance techniques
and powers." At the time, the report might have called to mind nations such as China
and Iran with high levels of state surveillance. But today, following revelations
of a broad, secret digital
surveillance program led by the U.S. National Security Agency, La Rue's words
seem instead to have been a prescient rebuke of U.S. policies.

Some journalists continue to receive the warning from Google
about state-sponsored attacks that we mentioned
last week. The message appears on top of logged-in services like Gmail.
Occasionally it will disappear for a few hours and then reappear, but there is
no way to remove it.